The Iowa primary always being first an ingenious way to guarantee big ag never has to deal with a president hostile to subsidies that allow them to waste massive amounts of food. Small farmers who might have benefited from these subsidies are almost all functionally the debt serfs of these giant companies now, chained to part of the food supply chain. Monsanto, Purdue, etc. can always invoke the struggling small farmer to argue for the subsidization of their crops and livestock production to make them profitable, the same way billionaires invoke the imagery of the scrappy entrepreneur or small business owner to make lowering their taxes sound palatable.